"8 million girls each watching them five times" - that sounds about right! I found out about the first Twilight movie when I happened to be walking past our movie theater one night and found hundreds of teenage girls camping out, waiting to see the midnight showing. I think it was the largest opening night our local movie theater ever had.
The white skin rage in Asia has nothing to do with Asians not wanting to look like African Americans. Rather, they do not want to look like farmers, who typically have darker skin from laboring all day under the hot sun.